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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-04-24 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Peter Friedman

Biography:

Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, screen, and television actor. Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972. Additional theatre credits include The Visit (1973), Piaf and A Soldier's Play (both 1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Ragtime (1998), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On television, Friedman starred as patriarch George Silver in Brooklyn Bridge, has made numerous guest appearances in such series as Miami Vice, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Damages, and had a featured role in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder. Friedman's many feature film credits include Prince of the City, Daniel, The Seventh Sign, Single White Female, I'm Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, Safe, Freedomland, The Savages, and I'm Not There. Friedman married actress Joan Allen in 1990. The couple divorced in 2002. They have one daughter, Sadie, born in March 1994.

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Known For

Acting

2024

2023

2022

Daddy's Girl as Robert
She Said as Lanny Davis

2021

Good Grief as Uncle Harold

2020

2019

2018

Succession as Frank Vernon

2017

2015

Keep in Touch as Dallen Parcel

2013

Side Effects as Banks' Partner #1

2012

Made in Jersey as Henry Sohn

2011

Harvest as Carmine Monopoli
Coming Up Roses as Charles
Person of Interest as Lawrence Szilard

2010

Love & Other Drugs as California Man

2009

The Messenger as Mr. Cohen

2008

Synecdoche, New York as Emergency Room Doctor

2007

I'm Not There as Morris Bernstein / Barker
The Savages as Larry
Damages as District Attorney

2006

Freedomland as Lt. Gold
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Unconscious as Father William

2005

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
Ghost Whisperer as Steve Burris

2004

King of the Corner as Arthur Wexler

2003

Paycheck as Attorney General Brown

2002

Two Against Time as Robert Portman
Power and Beauty as Sam Giancana

2001

Someone Like You... as Stephen, Alice's Husband

2000

1997

1996

I'm Not Rappaport as Young Nat's Father
I Shot Andy Warhol as Alan Burke

1995

Safe as Peter Dunning
The Heidi Chronicles as Scoop Rosenbaum

1993

Blink as Dr. Ryan Pierce

1992

Single White Female as Graham Knox

1991

Brooklyn Bridge as George Silver

1990

Law & Order as Nolan Farber
Law & Order as William Goodwin
Law & Order as Defense Attorney Harold Jensen

1988

The Seventh Sign as Father Lucci

1987

1985

Finnegan Begin Again as John Jewell

1984

Piaf as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
Miami Vice as Morgan

1983

Daniel as Ben Cohen

1981

1980

Christmas Evil as Mr. Grosch

1976

The Muppet Show as Crocodile / Banana (voice)
The Muppet Show as Lead Mop (voice)
The Muppet Show as Andre the Artist (voice)
The Muppet Show as Pa (voice)
The Muppet Show as Additional Muppets (voice)

1975

1971

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Masters of Doom as Al Vekovius